Last summer, the police sounded the alarm about HVB homes run by criminals, and there have also been other reports of misconduct at the homes where children are placed.
This year, the Health and Social Care Inspectorate (Ivo) has closed 17 HVB homes with various deficiencies, 14 of them since September.
According to Ivo, over a hundred places are affected by the closures. However, there is no figure on how many children and young people are currently waiting for HVB homes.
"Needs matching"
However, the government believes that the situation requires greater state responsibility, even though it is ultimately the municipalities that are responsible for the placements. Therefore, they intend to allocate 10 million kronor for such a function.
It is simultaneously unclear how this will be done, the government will return "in the near future".
The police have since the mapping in the summer discovered more HVB homes with criminal connections.
The list is constantly changing because organized crime and this problem are constantly changing, says Hampus Nygårds, deputy chief of Noa.
The police have supported Ivo in their supervisory work during the autumn, and Nygårds also thinks that the exchange of information from the police to Ivo has improved. But that doesn't mean the police share everything, he says.
S: Extremely weak
The fact that criminals run HVB homes gives them a direct opportunity to recruit children to gangs, according to the government. The police simultaneously point out that digital recruitment is a much larger problem. Nygårds is not aware of any examples where children have been directly recruited by criminal owners or employees at the homes.
The Social Democrats reject the government's message.
"10 million kronor is nothing in this context. In this situation, radical measures are required", writes Fredrik Lundh Sammeli (S).
He believes that the homes should be taken over by the municipalities, and the S has also proposed a "task force" to strengthen Ivo.
